More rubbish from Link Research Tools

There’s a big backlash brewing against ‘Link Research Tools’ (LRT) recently and this is tarnishing the link auditing industry in general. In defense of the ‘Link Audit industry’, I’m going to give some background and then argue why NOT ALL LINK AUDIT SERVICES ARE THE SAME.

PROBLEMS:
Flagging links as false positives, or suspicious is what LRT are guilty off and this causes so much noise when using their tools that it makes them valueless, not least because all data has to be treated as suspicious and checked again manually thus defeating the object of using their tools. Worse yet when people hear this they assume all automatic tools are useless!

MANUAL VS AUTOMATIC
Doing analytical research to find bad links by hand is very time consuming and costly, hence the natural tendency for companies like ours to automate the process to save our clients time, money and hassle. The bottom line is that this can be gotten wrong both when carried out manually and algorithmically, but in general some companies are guilty of either getting it all wrong so badly that they damage the perception and reputation of the industry:

SUMMARY:
Removing links is hard, finding bad links is hard, dealing with negative SEO is hard, but there are good companies out there who are not rude, arrogant and who understand the real problems companies face and do not have mistaken beliefs or valueless services, namely ourselves and I implore all companies to try our services at least once (tip some of our tools are free) and not judge all automatic link auditing tools with the same brush that LRT are painting themselves with!